Psychological Fiction and Nonfiction
“Death in Mind” has won a BIBA (Best Independent Book Award) “Book of the Year”. It’s an essay of about 200 pages that reconceptualizes death as an ordinary psychological phenomenon we all have experienced many times. What exactly constitutes the…
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Have you ever heard strange thumping or other noises in your house, especially at night? If so, you probably have Polters. Polters are people like us, but more dead. They hate the term “ghosts,” finding it pejorative. They live in…
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Attic Polters is a sequel to last year’s novel, “Polters” (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV3HG5JB; https://books2read.com/u/mBVzVk). Now the Polters (ghosts) are haunting the attics of old houses in Portland, OR. Astute readers might suspect an attic is a symbol for the mind. Whaaat? Here…
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If you like nothing, you’ll love this new paper! It’s a nonfiction essay in philosophical psychology, all about objectless experience. Who doesn’t love objectless experience? The paper combines ideas from “Scientific Introspection” (2020) and “Nothing in Mind” (2023). See those…
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Death In Mind, a nonfiction essay in philosophical psychology, is set for release January 1, 2024. Death In Mind is volume five in the award-winning Discovering the Mind series. This series of essays is the result of a fifty-year hunt…
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Polters, released in March, is a novel about life on the other side of the river that separates the living from the dead. And it has landed on the bottom rung of a tall ladder: the Cygnus Prize Longlist: https://www.chantireviews.com/contests/…
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Psi-Fi Books is enrolled in the Annual Summer Sale over at Smashwords.com. During July, you can get any book by William X. Adams at half price! Sci-fi! Speculative Fiction! Philosophical nonfiction! All through July, go to: https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/ All Psi-Fi books…
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Polters was “released” (or did it escape?) on March 1. Readers Favorite.com gives it five stars: Polters is captivating from the very first page. William X. Adams introduces a likable protagonist, Clay Redding, who is full of life yet desires…
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Alien Dream Machine, third in a series about Phane Vikos, alien from a distant star stranded on Earth, has placed as a 2021 finalist in the Cygnus Book Awards for Science-fiction! “The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and…
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Alien Dream Machine is the third in the trilogy starring Phane, the green alien from planet Vikos stranded on Earth. Recently, it got a positive review at ReadersFavorite.com. Here’s part of it: Readers Favorite.com: Five Stars! “… a narcoleptic private…
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